Psocomorpha

Psocomorpha is a suborder of barklice in the order Psocodea. There are more than 20 families and 5,300 described species in Psocomorpha.

Psocomorpha

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsocodeaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 102 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 102 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 102 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 102 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 56 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 14 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

102 occurrences of Psocomorpha on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

102 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

7 formations

Bouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EEscucha — 41.03°N, 0.56°W

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The named rock units Psocomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psocomorpha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Psocomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,359 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Psocomorpha, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

23 references

Each of the 102 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 11 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Psocomorpha

Credit
Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psocomorpha was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPsocodea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roesler 1944